Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand
Author: Paul Havemann
Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand aims to provide a contemporary and contextual survey and analysis of the legal and political interaction between the `British settler' states of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the indigenous First Nation peoples they dispossessed.

Reclaiming Indigenous Governance

Reclaiming Indigenous Governance
Author: William Nikolakis
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816540543

Reclaiming Indigenous Governance examines the efforts of Indigenous peoples in four important countries to reclaim their right to self-govern. Showcasing Native nations, this timely book presents diverse perspectives of both practitioners and researchers involved in Indigenous governance in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (the CANZUS states). Indigenous governance is dynamic, an ongoing relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler-states. The relationship may be vigorously contested, but it is often fragile—one that ebbs and flows, where hard-won gains can be swiftly lost by the policy reversals of central governments. The legacy of colonial relationships continues to limit advances in self-government. Yet Indigenous peoples in the CANZUS countries are no strangers to setbacks, and their growing movement provides ample evidence of resilience, resourcefulness, and determination to take back control of their own destiny. Demonstrating the struggles and achievements of Indigenous peoples, the chapter authors draw on the wisdom of Indigenous leaders and others involved in rebuilding institutions for governance, strategic issues, and managing lands and resources. This volume brings together the experiences, reflections, and insights of practitioners confronting the challenges of governing, as well as researchers seeking to learn what Indigenous governing involves in these contexts. Three things emerge: the enormity of the Indigenous governance task, the creative agency of Indigenous peoples determined to pursue their own objectives, and the diverse paths they choose to reach their goal.

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Author: Louis A. Knafla
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774859296

Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distinguished group of scholars whose work is showcased here, however, shows that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal title came from – and where it may be going – can also be enhanced by exploring legal developments in these former British colonies in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework. This path-breaking book offers a perspective on Aboriginal title that extends beyond national borders to consider similar developments in common law countries.

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
Author: R. Scott Sheffield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108424635

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand
Author: Paul Havemann
Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand aims to provide a contemporary and contextual survey and analysis of the legal and political interaction between the `British settler' states of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the indigenous First Nation peoples they dispossessed.

Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand

Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Jatinder Mann
Publisher: Studies in Transnationalism
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Citizenship
ISBN: 9781433151088

Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities

Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities
Author: Marianne O. Nielsen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816540411

This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions. European-based law not only has been used as a tool to infringe upon Indigenous human rights, it also has been used throughout global history to justify environmental injustices, treaty breaking, and massacres. The research in this volume focuses on the resurgence of traditional law, tribal–state relations in the United States, laws that have impacted Native American women, laws that have failed to protect Indigenous sacred sites, the effect of international conventions on domestic laws, and the role of community justice organizations in operationalizing international law. While all of these issues are rooted in colonization, Indigenous peoples are using their own solutions to demonstrate the resilience, persistence, and innovation of their communities. With chapters focusing on the use and misuse of law as it pertains to Indigenous peoples in North America, Latin America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, this book offers a wide scope of global injustice. Despite proof of oppressive legal practices concerning Indigenous peoples worldwide, this book also provides hope for amelioration of colonial consequences.

The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights

The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights
Author: Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1760462217

The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states—Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the operational dynamics of neoliberal governance both within each state and between them. Read together as a collection, these studies broaden the debate about and the analysis of contemporary government policy. The individual studies reveal the forms of actually existing neoliberalism that are variegated by historical, geographical and legal contexts and complex state arrangements. At the same time, they present examples of a more nuanced agential, bottom-up indigenous governmentality. Focusing on intense and complex matters of social policy rather than on resource development and land rights, they demonstrate how indigenous actors engage in trying to govern various fields of activity by acting on the conduct and contexts of everyday neoliberal life, and also on the conduct of state and corporate actors.

‘We Are All Here to Stay’

‘We Are All Here to Stay’
Author: Dominic O’Sullivan
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1760463957

In 2007, 144 UN member states voted to adopt a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US were the only members to vote against it. Each eventually changed its position. This book explains why and examines what the Declaration could mean for sovereignty, citizenship and democracy in liberal societies such as these. It takes Canadian Chief Justice Lamer’s remark that ‘we are all here to stay’ to mean that indigenous peoples are ‘here to stay’ as indigenous. The book examines indigenous and state critiques of the Declaration but argues that, ultimately, it is an instrument of significant transformative potential showing how state sovereignty need not be a power that is exercised over and above indigenous peoples. Nor is it reasonably a power that displaces indigenous nations’ authority over their own affairs. The Declaration shows how and why, and this book argues that in doing so, it supports more inclusive ways of thinking about how citizenship and democracy may work better. The book draws on the Declaration to imagine what non-colonial political relationships could look like in liberal societies.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration
Author: Sandra M. Bucerius
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199859019

This title provides comprehensive analyses of current knowledge about the unwarranted disparities in dealings with the criminal justice system faced by some disadvantaged minority groups in all developed countries